Answered thoughts

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Before and after

There are a lot of things that I’ve learned throughout the term. This subject taught me how to understand others more, on how they behave or how they acted like that. It’s like a key to understanding human behavior and some of its classification and differences.  As an individual, it is difficult to determine which area of the self is needing for improvement without proper education, and this subject guided me thoroughly. It pinpoints the areas of the self that are needed to improvise that will help me to become a better quality of individual in the society, and It also guided me on where I could possibly attain certain characteristics among the factors.

I think understanding the self made me understand my self and other people more deeper, and I believe that this knowledge will be helpful in the future in treating patients since I will be encountering different people with different personalities and behavior.

Lastly, is the way of testing us for having a test by giving only a short period of time, actually it made me panic and I got low scores in the beginning, and in the second quiz I got zero for not following instruction. Honestly I got discouraged about the subject but after I think of it simultaneously, I found out that it could be your way of training us to work efficiently under pressure since we are taking the course that involves life and might bring danger if not taken seriously. Since then, I’ve taken seriously the instruction and felt more relaxed while answering. I’ve taken that as a lesson that made me more ready in more complex way of teaching in the future.

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Maze map

Physical and mental health can affect your learning. In order to have higher grades, we must consider being healthy is a necessity. I exercise everyday for at least 10-15 minutes to lose fats and improve body functions. I also avoid consuming junk foods, sweets, soft drinks, and other foods containing some additives and oils that could be harmful in our body. 

People have different ways of learning, and its up to us which among the ways we find learning much easier. some of us discover the study style suited to them after trying some of it, but for me, I’ve been using mnemonics and jotting down every word and information that is really important or a word that can contain the whole thought. by this way, I found studying more effective. Avoid exploring new study styles during cramming that it could affect our learning and might cause panic that will make our studies ineffective. 

Emotional comfort could be attained from the people around us. It is important for everyone to have an efficient source of love and comfort for this will be helpful during in times of distress. I am so lucky that I can manipulate my mind and could quickly manage to change the way I percept. It is important to know our priorities, it helps us to identify which things should we consider first before looking on others. Don’t let ourselves devoured by sadness, or override our mind with emotions, always think about our priorities and lets do them accordingly.

External factors could give us tons of experiences and leanings. Socializing teaches us how to dwell on different people and groups, in this stage, we will be facing people with different status in life and their influences might help us grow. Just don’t forget that there are some characteristics that are no need for us to imitate, limitations must be established prior to imitating oneself. 

In achieving good academic performance, moral and discipline must prevail. As we seek for the effective study styles that are suited to us, we must discipline ourselves that there’s no easy way if you want effective learning. Sometimes, cheating is so tempting that it could give us abrupt answers without exerting so much effort, but we can’t lie in ourselves, we are the ones who cheated, we tricked ourselves and prevented to learn. Even if we are not under supervised, we must stick to being righteous and able to learn. 

Church institutions is so influential that it could transform broke person into a whole new person. Once we collaborate with our inner-essence, we can feel the unending capability inside our body. Spiritual self was taught during the early age so that everyone will be taught about moral and behavior. Everyone must grow spiritually that it binds all of the aforementioned factors but it may vary on one’s faith and maturity of spiritual self. 

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A step away from the doorstep

If you’re doing what you love, you will never get tired as what they’ve said. We have different views in life, and some of us live to fulfill individual’s dream. I consider myself as a late bloomer, but I noticed earlier in my life what I really want to become but I lose the chance and took the other one. I admit that I don’t have the courage before and I was afraid back then, and now, I came back to fulfill what I really want and decided to fight for it. To be a nurse someday is one of my biggest dreams, and I am willing to give up everything for the sake of my dreams.

I can say that I succeeded when I can see different people’s emotions in a premises, where I can hear what they feel, what they need, the scream of pain, and the sound of thankfulness. by this time, I must be very happy and probably wont ever get tired. 

 I know that before anything happens in life, something must be done. I will be giving my best in learning the lessons that this will be the foundation of my dream of becoming nurse and I am willing to use every resources I have and I believe my parents will do the same. I am willing to give my time, my extra money to buy reference books and other study materials that will make my study more easier.

A goal is the vision of the self or the way of projection of rewards and it gives motivation to oneself. I just simply don’t want to regret in the future for not getting what will make me happy, and aside from that, I want to go abroad and go to different places, and capture every scenery. I will try my very best to give it a head start and hopefully I can do it within six years. I can’t wait to see myself in that moment. 

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Me, at the crosswalk

My top three learning styles is quite confusing that the other one belonged to the other group which is the introspective. But the top learning styles I have tells me that I rely on the ideas and feelings that I have, that I love going outdoors, that I give answers according to my idea, and that I love reasoning and some problem solving that requires critical thinking. And the weaknesses I have is that I am less interactive, I found my self less attracted to charts, graph, maps, puzzles or anything that are eye catching, and also playing musical instruments. But these weaknesses I have is now dramatically improving and I want to give focus to these factors since I will be needing these along the way. 

The result amazes me that it portrays some of my strengths and weaknesses that ables me to re-evaluate myself to be better. Self improvement requires being knowledgeable of everything that concerns one’s weakness spots, so that s/he will be knowing the areas that needs improvement. I have the abilities/skills to endure and withstand problems and the ability to exert more boost to self by answering the question “why I have started”.

 The barriers that I foresee is that I do not excel in numbers or anything that involves numbers and probably financially. But now, I am really giving my best to love and fulfill the lacking and somehow I can see improvements in myself. Before I decided to take this course, I said to myself that I will be loving the subjects that I hated the most or the subjects that I don’t excel. And for the financial matter, I just feel guilty to my parents that I still ask for their support until now at this age. Before I have decided to enroll in this semester, I was already working in a known company in Davao, and suddenly the pandemic happened so I decided to stop and took the opportunity to think what should I do in life, so I come up with enrolling. Supposedly, at this age, at least I am the one who pay the bills or somehow I can buy them things that will make them happier and feel that I am already paying the favor or the investment they’ve made, what happened is the opposite.  Sometimes I get disappointed in myself and get jealous when someone is so good in numbers. I really regret the days that have passed that was supposedly my chance of learning, the days that I avoided my weaknesses and chose to give up what’s difficult. All I can do now is to fight for change, help myself to change these hatred to love, and strive harder to surpass these challenges in life. 

This is my second course now and I think I should consider this as an achievement. I finished my first course with hardwork and discipline that made me tough from the very beginning up to the end. I know this path I have chosen will be far more difficult than the last time but, I am willing to give extra effort and courage to fight. 

It makes me happy everytime seeing myself making everyone happy. It is so heartwarming that you’re the reason of the smile of others. I am easily contented and could get so happy even in little things. That’s why I decided to choose the profession where I could see tons of smiles.

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EASTERN SCOPE

We all strive to be a better person everyday. Isn’t it admiring if the culture throughout your continent has the same goal that is to teach how to become a perfect person? These 4 belief systems such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism has been teaching how to live perfectly and behave according to their respective belief. 

Eastern concept showed us that there’s a unity within diversity and there is no impossible if an entire continent has the same goal and courage to spread the good practices that will benefit the people within their jurisdiction.   

The things I like in the eastern concept is that they believe that winning is inside themselves and they don’t need to stress themselves out just to prove that oneself is living well. For them peace and achievement could be attained through spiritual and meditation, in short, they are mastering to control emotions and the link between human and nature.

Eastern concept is so different than western concept specifically in seeking justice. Eastern concept has established judgement based on eternal truths and it doesn’t require them to seek for evidence unlike in the western. In eastern, justice is hard to meet. If other countries belittle me, I would be responding based on the teaching of culture where I belong and I’ll try to understand them considering the diversities on why they act like that. Our culture has never been discriminating other cultures, and they should do the same. We have different beliefs and this is because of our ancestor’s belief, but despite of the differences, we are all still humans, who rely on biological factors.

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TWO FACED ME

The only thing I regretted the most in my life is that I took so much time to figure out what I really want in my life. I finished my first course, Time has passed, my career is blooming, but despite of these, I didn’t think that It’s too late for me to achieve what I really want in life. I feel so sorry to my self for not doing the things that may have fed me knowledge and for choosing the opposite path. If I will be given a chance to go back from the start, I will be focusing on the things that will make me great in the future instead of choosing what is fun. 

I am a late bloomer, it took hundreds of signs and thousands of experiences before I figured out what I really love. But I believe that coming late in life is not a fault, it will just become more regrettable if you don’t make an action towards your dreams. 

I’ve been through a lot, but I commend my self for being tough and understanding. Even though the decisions I made isn’t so good but it somehow bring me closer to my dreams. If I’m going to write a letter to my self it would be: 

Dear self,

Thank you for holding on, I know you’ve been through a lot and I want you to know that I love you and I’m doing all of these for you. There are times that you got hurt maybe I should say sorry for that, but those pains are your foundation now, and we must be grateful for having that. I hope we can make it till the end, let’s make our dreams come true, let’s make the divine proud.

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UNLEASH THE BEST WITHIN YOU

For me, First thing to successfully unleash yourself to the external environment is to identify who you really are and what you want to become. By answering these two questions, it will surely give you an idea on how you’re going to deal with the external factors.  Unleashing oneself is never been so difficult if your life has been examined already. There are some ways of unleashing oneself and it may vary on a person’s standard that he/she may call it best. In order to unleash your better self toward yourself is to build the foundation or the so called trust. You have to trust yourself and realize that you are capable of doing something that even others think that it’s impossible for you to attain. As you understand the nature of human behavior, the more you you’re convinced that the people around you will be contributing a part in your personality and behavior whether you like it or not. Do you believe that a person’s personality was built biologically? Yes it is true. We all know that we are being trained and molded in early as during preparatory stage that is introduced by George Mead, when we were still an infant and know nothing, the family that we’re belong is the one who built the personality whats living within us today.  Preparation must be initiated by yourself. Socializing is important to oneself since it will benefit you and make you grow professionally. Exposing yourself to society might be influential and harsh, someone might criticize you for not reaching their standard and qualification. But despite the fact that we might be criticized, one thing is for sure that we can get a lesson from them that will strengthen our foundation. In our community, some people might think that I am not approachable maybe because of my gestures or maybe because I don’t usually talk to people around me. Though i don’t talk to them first but, if they start making conversation with me, some usually say that I am very different compared to their impression and it will make me laugh every time I hear this because I know I am the opposite. 

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The two greatest philosophers

The philosopher I admire the most is Plato. Plato believes that the self is almost the same with the soul, and to support that, he introduces the idea of the three part soul/self such as Reason, Physical Appetite, and the Spirit/Passion. 

Reason gives us understanding on how to think deeper on what should we do or what we’re doing is right and just that will help us to choose the right choice. His philosophy was ever useful and made us even more close to knowing oneself and contributed a big part in understanding the eternal truths that classifies us as humans.

Physical appetite is the essential needs in order to survive life. His deep understanding led us to think what we should prioritize among millions of things/to do’s to balance that these days science continue to support and study as well. And due to this, we now have patterns to follow and became the basis of understanding on how to prolong life.  Spirit or passion it identifies where we could get happiness, anger, empathy, ambition, and aggressiveness. As he pointed out the causes of these feelings, it made us able to control emotions to avoid conflict. For him, conflict can occur anytime, and if conflict of emotion occurs, your understanding of the reason is the measure on how you’re going to pull the situation back to normal. 

The second philosopher I admire is St. Augustine, As he agreed on Plato’s philosophy and added Christianity that contributed a big part in humanity and belief. St. Augustine uses Plato’s views for his teachings of Christianity that dealt a drastic change in the humanity. He added that whoever chose to be lawful is considered as God’s creation. Therefore, humans should choose good over evil.  If philosophers never existed, the world would be so different. There are some point that I agree on other philosophers, each one of them somehow contributed and brought us here today. if they were alive until now, we should thank them for having everything explained and made easy for us to understand the seen and the unseen.